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Anyone recall the laughs Bill Gates got when it came
out that he had his mansion designed on a Linux box?!
You are just doing the same, turning the whole
argument for eCS - OS/2 into a laughing stock.
--- Christian Langanke
<os2-wireless_users@2rosenthals.com> wrote:
> Neil Waldhauer wrote:
> > This is off-topic, but I disagree with you and
> Rick and anyone else who thinks
> > the world is paying enough attention to think of
> us.
> >
>
> Neil,
>
> I very much disagree as well, I second your reason
> very much, and I see
> another one.
>
> Rules in general are nothing bad, (but beside
> personal taste and
> popular demands) they normally are intended to help
> achieving a
> meaningful goal. But for this os rule I doubt that
> it leads to a
> meaningful goal in our days, in fact today I
> consider it being
> counterproductive if it is about building and
> keeping the eCS community
> together (this may well have been different in
> 2002). The reason for
> this is that I think no service that promotes eCS
> should be disclosed
> from any offer of another eCS related service, as
> long as it serves the
> goal of promoting eCS. I would be happy to have
> thousand of linux boxes,
> or even MS doing eCS promotion on thousands of W2k3
> boxes if they only
> would like to :-)
>
> IMHO promoting eCS should be the only criteria for
> letting users and
> services take part in an eCS related community and
> their offerings. And
> concerning that I would consider netlabs.org being
> at least one of the
> most valuable platforms around. I don't know a
> single website that has
> done that much for OS/2 and eComStation projects and
> with it application
> development as netlabs.org did in the last ten
> years. And I see _no
> single site_ that has done only a little part of the
> effort to keep the
> OS/2 & eCS idea running further in the future.
>
> Therefore I conclude: rules are good, but they
> sometimes have to be
> changed. Change this one, it is high time!
>
> bye, Christian
>
> -------------------------------------------------
>
> Christian Langanke
> COS2E & CWSE
> Team OS/2 Ruhr e.V.
> cla@clanganke.de
>
>
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